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Published inSep 2020
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Sonyl Nagale
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Sonyl Nagale

Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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We've learned about events, their life cycle, and how event-driven design works. An event is triggered by an action by the user (or programmatically based on the program logic) and enters its life cycle. In the event life cycle, our program can pick up on many pieces of information carried by the event object itself, such as the mouse position or target DOM node.

By understanding how Ajax works with events, you're well on your way toward becoming a fully fledged JavaScript developer. Ajax is incredibly important as its the conduit between JavaScript and external APIs. Since JavaScript is stateless and client-side JavaScript has no concept of sessions, it's important for Ajax calls to be asynchronous in nature; hence the introduction of tools such as fetch.

Congratulations! We've covered a lot of very dense material. Next up are frameworks and libraries in JavaScript.

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Sonyl Nagale

Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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